There is a sentence you have lived by for so long that it no longer sounds like a sentence; it sounds like the truth about you. It may have come in one moment of shame or formed slowly under a parent’s temper or a friend’s betrayal, but somewhere you agreed with it, and every wound since has landed in the same place to prove it right. You can explain the love of the Lord to anyone who asks, yet for you it remains something you understand far better than you have ever received. Stasi Eldredge joins me to confront why so many sincere followers of Jesus know about Him without ever coming to know Him, and why the culture’s call to own your story has become a cloak that binds people to the very wound it promised to explain. We press into the difference between owning your story and honoring it, the practice of breaking agreement with the lies that took root in your pain, and why the same arrows keep finding the same place until you invite Jesus into it.
This conversation will not hand you a better way to manage the ache. It will ask you to look honestly at what happened, to grieve what never should have happened, and to break agreement out loud with the lie while it still feels true. The Lord who asked, “Who told you that you were naked?” (Genesis 3:11, ESV) is asking you the same question now, not to shame you but to heal you, so answer Him honestly.
About Stasi Eldredge
Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times bestselling author who, together with her husband, John, leads Wild at Heart. She is the co-author of Captivating and the author of Becoming Myself and Unwavering, and her writing has given a generation of women honest language for their wounds and their longing for God. Her newest book, The Ladder of Love: A Pathway to Emotional Healing and Spiritual Intimacy with Jesus, follows the progression Scripture traces from clay and servant to friend and bride, inviting readers to be known by Jesus in the places they have kept from Him.
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Resources Mentioned This Week
- The Ladder of Love: A Pathway to Emotional Healing and Spiritual Intimacy with Jesus
- Healing What You Can’t Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out
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